[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith":3,"chapter-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-219":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Childhood Friend of the Zenith",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1240245,1667,"Chapter 219: Omen (6)","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-219",219,"\u003Cp>༺ Omen (6) ༻\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After parting ways with Gu Jeolyub and the Second Elder, I went out to the streets with Wi Seol-Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because it felt uncomfortable to stay in the clan for some reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘The Steward’s gaze bothers me a bit, but it will be fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since I would soon be confined, I didn’t think that they would let me leave the clan, so I was shocked when they let me leave so easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had thought of different methods to leave the clan because I thought they wouldn’t let me out, but now they were pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master! Over there!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wai… Jeez, loosen your hands a little!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moved around in the streets as if I was dragged by Wi Seol-Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was the first time we went out in a while, Wi Seol-Ah was in a very cheerful mood, clearly seen by how she dragged me around like an excited bull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muyeon would’ve normally come, but he said that he was stepping into an enlightenment, and since walking around in the streets was fine, I ordered him not to follow us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘It’s not like I need an escort with something like this.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if Muyeon was getting enlightenment, that was more important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chicken skewer!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah yeah…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though we were out in the streets for the first time in a while, we only ended up buying food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Though it’s always been like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I wonder what the other girls are up to.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked for Namgung Bi-ah and Tang Soyeol before leaving, but Namgung Bi-ah had left to train like always and I heard that Tang Soyeol went out somewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Now that I think about it, is Tang Soyeol not gonna go back?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Namgung Bi-ah was basically living in Gu Clan now, but since the Dragons and Phoenixes Tournament ended, Tang Soyeol was in a situation where she had to go back to Sichuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘…I also heard that she receives a lot of letters as well.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letters sent to Tang Soyeol from the Tang Clan were piled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Soyeol obviously wasn’t reading them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I was being dragged by Wi Seol-Ah, I glanced at the alley midway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the alley that led to the Hao Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I do have to visit.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been a while, and I had to visit them to talk about their Lord, but I wasn’t really in a good situation right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it was better for me to just hang around with Wi Seol-Ah right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[While you also slack off your training as well.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I would have to do that to the point I get tired of it soon anyway, so I’m just gonna relax for a day.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[How productive of you.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Thank you for the compliment.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let Elder Shin’s words in my ear and out the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like always.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The dumpling store closed huh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master… From all the faces I’ve seen from you recently, you look the saddest right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is really a big deal, you know that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That a dumpling store closed down?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, it’s the same as your favorite chicken skewer store closing down.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing my response, Wi Seol-Ah made a horrified expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“T-That’s a really big problem… that place is really good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, that’s how I’m feeling right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What a tragedy that is.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dumpling store I went to often closed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was one of the most shocking things that happened after my regression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A mere dumpling store closing down is…?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You wouldn’t get it when you were a Taoist that only ate grass.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You piece of? Mount Hua also eats meat.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Taoists eat meat…? I knew it, Mount Hua wasn’t a normal Taoist clan.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You…!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let my stress out on Elder Shin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man shouted in my ears, but I got used to it by this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘There isn’t anything I could really buy before going back then.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I always bought a bunch of snacks before going back home, but I couldn’t do that anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because there were no more dumplings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I guess I can’t buy anything this ti…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried to speak while looking at Wi Seol-Ah, but she was looking in a different direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I checked what she was looking at…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? What did you say, Young Master?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nah, nothing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where shall we go next!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah hopped towards me, wrapped her arm around mine and dragged me away once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, I glanced at where Wi Seol-Ah was looking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Hey, what’s the point of you asking if you are gonna drag me around anyway?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehe!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t try to brush this off with your giggling.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of Wi Seol-Ah’s shrewd act, I also laughed involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>******************\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time I returned to the clan, it was already nighttime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as I returned, I was called over by the Steward and he told me about everything that I would do in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My confinement would begin in about four days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told me that I would be placed in Gu Clan’s Fire Chamber, but that much was fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I do have to organize them soon enough.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was the bunch of energies inside my body or my middle abdomen that I unlocked by reaching the Peak Realm, I planned to organize them through this confinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I caused this, but I might as well be productive with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During my confinement, they would make plans to assign me to a Swordsmen Army so that I could waste a whole year on the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one responsible for managing the battlefield, Gu Huibi the Captain of the Fifth Army was currently lying down in a medical room as a patient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I asked what would happen if she hadn’t recovered in that time frame and they told me if Gu Huibi couldn’t, the Captain of the First Army would drag me away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘…So they are saying that they won’t give me any chance to run away.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like I had to be dragged to the battlefield no matter what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘How annoying.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t afraid of the battlefield, nor was I afraid of Gu Huibi by this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘…Though I am a bit afraid of the latter.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I was tortured by Gu Huibi in my past life, I was barely a third-rate martial artist, let alone the First-rate, and I only felt exhausted because I didn’t train one bit at that point in time, so my body was weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at least now, I wasn’t in a state where I would be exhausted by such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘It’s just, my instinct doesn’t like the fact that I would be under Gu Huibi’s command.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It almost felt like an instinct that was engraved into my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘A year huh…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A year on the frontlines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a very long time, so I had to plan beforehand what I needed to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Whether it’s the matter about the Heavenly Demon or the Black Palace.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was in a situation where I couldn’t let any of those things escape, but I had to endure a whole year while also dealing with those things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Maybe I should really run away?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This did seem like the best option no matter how much I looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I did plan to leave the clan one day for good after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tsk…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t afford to leave right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because there were still things that I needed to take care of inside the clan as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘That’s just my life in a nutshell.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s strange that something gets solved in a life where not a single thing goes right after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While leaking my Qi to my surroundings, I carefully moved my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I waited for the darkness to come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I can’t believe I have to not only break out of my own clan’s jail, but also have to sneak around.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a joke this was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place I carefully snuck into was none other than Gu Huibi’s house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Members of the Fifth Army were standing around the building on a lookout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the only ones who were allowed to enter were the blood relatives of the clan and the Immortal Healer, but I had to sneak into her place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was so that I could cleanse the Demonic Qi that was stuck inside Gu Huibi’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was technically allowed to enter through the front door since I was a blood relative of the clan, but I didn’t want to show them that I could cleanse Demonic Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Though the Immortal Healer probably already knows about it.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘The Palace Lord’s energy wasn’t that little, but this much is easy.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this made me all the more curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of how and where the Sword Queen was poisoned by all of that Demonic Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘…Was it the Heavenly Demon?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had a lot of doubts to believe that and I was still missing a lot of pieces of the puzzle to come up with that conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I saw it as more likely that she got it from somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If that’s the case?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an instant, I was reminded of the things I saw in the Abyss in my past life, but I erased them right away. Because I didn’t believe that that was really the case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After I absorbed all of the Demonic Qi from Gu Huibi’s body, I quickly stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Huibi would wake up around the time the sun rose and I had to leave before that happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, I thought as I stared at Gu Huibi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If I didn’t do this, then she wouldn’t have had to suffer on the battlefield.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I didn’t cleanse the Demonic Qi inside her, Gu Huibi wouldn’t go out to the battlefield, and I would be sent to it along with the First Army’s captain as planned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That might have been more comfortable for me…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘But I can’t let that happen.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was an annoying sister, but I couldn’t bring myself to do such a thing to Gu Huibi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even if she had a nasty personality, she was still my sister after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Now that I think about it, I should probably go see Gu Yeonseo as well.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the second child of Gu Clan, and an elder sister of mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I never got to see Gu Yeonseo properly ever since the Nine Dragons Day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I did see her from far away a few times, but I never got to have a proper conversation with her because she kept avoiding me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I’ll visit her one day to solve this relationship.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because we couldn’t afford to keep this up forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at Gu Huibi who was sleeping soundly, then I turned around and left her place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was difficult to sneak in, but leaving was much easier compared to entering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While hiding my presence, I returned to my place with quick steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By falling asleep now, my plan would’ve been executed perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But someone sat on the floor next to my room just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the middle of this midnight at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After checking who it was, I spoke to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was strange to see her do such a thing at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one watching the moonlight while sitting on the floor was Wi Seol-Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why aren’t you sleepi…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I paused in the middle of my sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the moonlight, when Wi Seol-Ah turned around, her eyes for some reason looked golden for an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it must have been my mistake, seeing as when I looked again, she had her normal black pupils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Am I that tired?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I never had the time to relax, it seemed like I kept hallucinating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You should be sleeping at this time, what are you doing there, you…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about the Young Master?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I had something to do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me too… I also had something.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Looking at the sun.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could you say you’re watching the sun in the middle of the night?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a night that had a new moon shining brightly in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way she was able to see the sun in this dark night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I asked her what she was on about, Wi Seol-Ah responded with a light smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’ll rise tomorrow.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then you should watch it tomorrow, why are you looking for it now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I agree.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is she saying?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is she also exhausted?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she played out in the streets today, it seemed like she wasn’t fully in her head either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You should sleep soon. You might be scolded by Elder Wi if you don’t, you know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oungh, I don’t know if I want that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And Hongwa would also yell at you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahh, I really don’t want that…!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing my words, Wi Seol-Ah quickly got up with a horrified expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like she was headed towards her room, but I stopped Wi Seol-Ah for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah stared at me wondering why I stopped her, then I took out something from my pocket and placed it in Wi Seol-Ah’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah’s eyes sparkled when she looked at the object that was in her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her already big eyes opened even more widely, which surprised me that they could get that big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You were looking at it earlier, so I thought that you needed it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“N-No… it’s not like that…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s fine if you don’t, but use it since I bought it already.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gift I gave her was an accessory that hung on the hilt of a sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most swordsmen didn’t put it on, saying that it got in their way, but Wi Seol-Ah should be fine with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whether it’s a sword or whatever, work hard at it. And it’s fine to give up if you don’t want to do it anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she decided that she would pick up a sword in the end, I wanted to stop her, but I believed that it was necessary for me to let her be for her future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A point where she could protect herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she had at least that much, then it would help Wi Seol-Ah have a more peaceful life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After staring at Wi Seol-Ah’s widened eyes, I spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m gonna go to sleep. You should also go to sleep as well.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After briefly patting her head, I also went into my room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the door closed, Wi Seol-Ah, who stared at the accessory in her hand after she was left alone, quietly whispered while looking at Gu Yangcheon’s room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…You are wrong. The sun is perfectly up in the sky after all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah whispered those words…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she tightly held the accessory in her arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can rate\u002Freview this serieshere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Аdvаnсеd сhарtеrѕ аvаіlаblе оn gеnеѕіѕtlѕ.соm\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Іlluѕtrаtіоnѕ оn оur dіѕсоrd – dіѕсоrd.gg\u002Fgеnеѕіѕtlѕ\u003C\u002Fp>",2493,"2026-06-05T15:09:39.031Z",1,"novelbin.me","46e0c5246dee9d8e1160771007633de2926f650b4a43b375ee323cb1f6e9efaf","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-220","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-218",974,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fchildhood-friend-of-the-zenith-cover.jpg"]